Postgraduate courses

Research masters

Doctoral degrees

Short courses and professional development

Get hands-on experience

Throughout your course, you can choose to work on real-world projects or develop your own practice. You'll be encouraged to experiment with a range of animation styles and techniques, while producing your own animations, graphics and visual effects. You can use our broad range of study areas to tailor your learning to the parts of industry you're most interested in.

In your final year, you'll develop a major creative work that explores whichever aspect or medium of animation you choose. You'll showcase this work to industry professionals at your end-of-year graduate exhibition.

Build real-world skills

As part of your study, you'll work in a studio setting and respond to creative briefs that help you develop a comprehensive set of skills and knowledge to express your inspired and innovative ideas. Learn the fundamental concepts, practices and history of animation, including animation for:

filmmaking

game development

visual effects

motion graphics

virtual production.

Apply your skills and knowledge via practical training to take your concepts and projects from ideas to reality.

Career outcomes

Our graduates are highly regarded in the animation, games and visual effects industries because they are versatile, innovative and career ready. They're employed as:

animators

concept artists

visual effects artists

game artists

designers.

They work in a range of industries, including:

animation studios

traditional film production houses

computer games companies

visual effects and post-production companies

advertising and design agencies

information visualisation and real-time studios.

Several of our graduates are award-winning storytellers who successfully produce animated short films that screen at international festivals.